Nicola Nice comes to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail to discuss her new book "The Cocktail Parlor" about the history of women and cocktails in the home. It includes 100 recipes.

She made history in 1972 when WTAR-TV (now WTKR-TV) hired her as the first Black female television news reporter in Hampton Roads. “ [Black journalists] had to be better than other people just ...